On Tuesday evening (Sept. 27) in the station’s UBS Forum here at our headquarters in St. Paul, host Stephen Smith will be chatting with admissions expert Carol Stack about how to juggle all that.

Among other things, Stack — a former Macalester and Augsburg admissions director who now works at the consulting firm Hardwick-Day — assesses admissions and recruitment operations, develops new enrollment management strategies and provides admissions and financial aid staff training.

In 1991, Carol relocated to Brussels, Belgium, with her family. She spent four years as a college counselor at St. John’s School in Waterloo, Belgium, and then became director of guidance at the International School of Brussels. Her time abroad included managing advanced placement programs; counseling students wishing to study in the U.S., U.K., continental Europe or Asia; and conducting pre-departure training and orientation for Belgian and Luxemburgian Fulbright Scholars prior to their enrollment at U.S. universities.

Carol and Hardwick-Day’s Ruth Vedvik are writing The Financial Aid Handbook: Getting the Education You Want for the Price You Can Afford by Career Press.

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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.